OWASP Riga Chapter

This event is kindly hosted by Workland Telegraph. There is limited seating available for in-person attendees. Registration required.

Venue Location: Audēju iela 15, Centra rajons, Rīga, LV-1050

Doors Open at 17.30 for registration, cookies and networking. The talks start at 18.00 (we start on time!).

TALKS

OWASP Introduction and Welcome - Vladislavs Kolosovs, Andrey Gubarev - OWASP Riga Chapter Leaders

Topic TBD - Kirils Solovjovs

Please Build Me A Weapon - Gvido Bērziņš
A lot of us still wait around for the perfect tool, pay for it, or just give up when it doesn't exist — but you really don't have to anymore. In this talk I want to show how I build AppSec tooling on demand: gluing together AI, open and free public databases, and a bit of UI so everything actually works together instead of rotting in a folder of one-off scripts. I'll be speaking from experience — sharing ideas for combining existing tooling, building brand new tools, and using AI for security both directly and indirectly.

What I keep coming back to is building wrappers and browsers for open databases — taking any free, public dataset, correlating and enriching it, and keeping that data on tap for whatever AppSec tool I need to throw together for the occasion. The real point of this talk isn't the tools themselves though; it's to give you the motivation and the ideas to go build more of your own.

SPEAKERS

Kirils Solovjovs
Kirils Solovjovs is Latvia's leading white-hat hacker and IT policy activist. He began programming at age 7, and by grade 9 was already writing machine code directly in a hex editor during lunch breaks. Renowned for uncovering and responsibly disclosing critical vulnerabilities in national and international systems, he is an expert in network flow analysis, reverse engineering, and social engineering. A lifelong command-line enthusiast, he uses bash daily for hacking, automation, and large-scale data processing.

He is the author of the jailbreak tool for MikroTik RouterOS and played a pivotal role in developing e-Saeima, the world's first fully remote legislative system used by the Latvian Parliament. Today, Kirils serves as lead researcher at Possible Security.

Gvido Bērziņš
Cyber Security Consultant on the Red Team with experience in software development and other IT fields.

TICKETS
OWASP meetups are free and open to anyone interested in application security. Please note that you MUST book your place to be admitted to the event by the building security.

CODE OF CONDUCT
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